Shielding her inner horror as best as she could Leah walked into her room. The entire room had been deprived of its usual blanche in favour of an "abstract painting" look.
"What is the meaning of this?" she queried, the dulcet tone enhancing the threatening tinge to her voice.
Apparently oblivious to the threatening tone, Reneesme smiled around the paintbrush clenched in her teeth and then turned back to her handiwork.
"A homecoming gift of sorts," she replied cheekily, turning back to paint pink hearts on her bathroom door, "Granma Sue was worried about the fact that you were glaring holes into her beloved roses so she wanted me to give you something else to glare at."
An almost-audible gnashing of teeth was the only reply Nessie received before Leah bit out "You have one minute before you leave with all your limbs intact,"
Utterly impervious to the terrifying glare she was receiving from her would-be mentor, Nessie lovingly filled out the silver link connecting the two hearts.
"Forty five seconds,"
She continued to color the link sedately.
"Three seconds,"
She put the brush down, tilted her head sideways to admire her handiwork when the she-wolf's hand shot out. Dancing out of reach, she squatted on the window sill and waved cheerily before falling out the window and performing a mid-air turn and landing on her feet and jauntily walking home.
Leah muttered something that sounded suspiciously like "show off" before going down the stairs to request to move everything to the attic upstairs.